(1) The Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection shall be authorised, by statutory instrument not requiring the consent of the Bundesrat,
1. to regulate the establishment and the business procedure, as well as the form taken by the proceedings in trade mark matters unless these have been regulated by statute,
2. to determine further requirements for the application for trade marks,
3. to determine the classification of goods and services,
4. to make detailed arrangements for the implementation of the examination, opposition, revocation and invalidity proceedings,
5. to make arrangements regarding the Register of registered trade marks and, where appropriate, separate provisions regarding the Register for collective marks and certification marks,
6. to regulate the indications regarding registered trade marks and regarding opposition and invalidity proceedings to be included in the Register and to determine the extent and the nature of the publication of these indications,
7. to make arrangements regarding the other procedures before the German Patent and Trade Mark Office provided for in this Act, such as in particular the procedure in the division of applications and of registrations, the procedure to issue information or certificates, the procedure for the re-establishment of rights, the procedure to inspect files, the procedure regarding protection of international registrations and the procedure regarding the conversion of European Union trade marks,
8. to make arrangements regarding indications concerning licences to be included in the Register,
9. to make arrangements regarding the form in which requests and submissions are to be submitted in trade mark matters, including the transmission of requests and submissions by means of electronic data transmission,
10. to make arrangements regarding the form in which decisions, notices or other communications of the German Patent and Trade Mark Office in trade mark matters are to be transmitted to the parties, including transmission by means of electronic data transmission unless a specific form of transmission is prescribed by law,
11. to make arrangements regarding the cases in which and the circumstances under which submissions and documents in trade mark matters are considered in other languages than German,
12. to entrust civil servants of the higher intermediate service or comparable employees with carrying out matters which are incumbent on the Trade Mark Divisions and which by their nature do not pose any particular legal difficulties, with the exception of taking decisions on the cancellation of trade marks due to surrender, revocation or invalidity (section 48 (1) and section 53), the submission of expert reports (section 58 (1)) and the decisions whereby the submission of an expert report is refused,
13. to entrust civil servants of the intermediate service or comparable employees with the carrying out of tasks which are incumbent on the Trade Mark Sections or Trade Mark Divisions and which by their nature do not pose any particular legal difficulties, with the exception of decisions on applications and oppositions,
14. to prescribe the indications to be included in the publication in accordance with section 33 (3), as well as to determine the scope and nature of the publication of these indications,
15. to create rules on the public holidays to be taken into account for time limits in trade mark matters which apply to all offices of the German Patent and Trade Mark Office.
(2) The Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection may, by statutory instrument not requiring the consent of the Bundesrat, delegate the authorisation to issue statutory instruments referred to in subsection (1), in whole or in part, to the German Patent and Trade Mark Office.